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picked up

adjective as in perceived

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They finished out the tour without incident, while newspapers across the country picked up the story.

Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.

He recalled for Koenig how scared Jay was the night he was picked up by cops—though not of the police, but of Adnan.

“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.

There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.

All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.

Her eyes were not nearly as soft as they had been, while she picked up the hanging folds of pink cloth, and went on.

Jean Baptiste laughed when he had completed the letter, picked up one of his books and looking through it, found the place.

A suitable stone for such a purpose will be picked up and carried hundreds of miles.

There was a constrained late dinner, at the end of which Mamma picked up Judy and put her to bed with endearments manifold.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to picked up, such as: anticipated, recognized, felt, grasped, heard, and heeded.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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